Quotes About Fear

This is a powerful metaphor for how our fear of aging and our deep belief that we are meant to grow old may get transformed into aging itself, as a self-fulfilling prophecy generated by a withering self-image.

Replace risk with certainty. You have no worries about losing control if you aren't threatened. Once you are certain about yourself, external threats don't exist anymore, because threat is the same as fear, and knowing who you are is a fearless state. Who you are is the true self. Expanded awareness takes you closer to this true self; therefore, fear decreases. When that happens, the issue of control lessens. In its place you experience a state of increased freedom.

Be with your fear, seeing it as a bodily sensation. Think of this sensation as rooted in old energies that have been stored up. Ask that pent-up energy to flow out of your body. Assist this flow until you have released what is ready to leave right now.

entered anyway, of his own free will. I've known fear, he thought. And fear is death's chief weapon. Let me experience the worst torment, and then fear will lose its hold over me. The phase of hellish torment lasted a long time because every morning his broken bones and flayed skin grew back.

Nivel 1: Problemas creados por el miedo, la ira y otros impulsos negativos La respuesta básica es defensiva. La ira y el miedo son primarios, pero poco evolucionados. Casi toda la energía se dedica a la supervivencia. En este nivel uno quiere arremeter y culpar a los demás.

and dreaming about tomorrow was pure escapism from the pain we fear today. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.

aprendido. Si permaneces alerta, tendrás un cerebro sano que seguirá apoyándote a medida que envejeces. Nuestra expectativa debe ser permanecer alerta, y no el miedo al deterioro y la senilidad.

La pobreza es sin duda una fuente de infelicidad, pero también lo es el dinero, ya que una vez que la gente tiene lo suficiente para asegurarse las necesidades básicas, el dinero extra no la hace más feliz; de hecho, la responsabilidad añadida, junto con el miedo a perderlo, a menudo tiene el efecto contrario.

That's what had changed when he jumped into the abyss. He exchanged illusion for truth. He felt purified, and yet some part of him couldn't rejoice in it. What would it be like to be the only man who wasn't afraid?

Cate felt that just by looking at them, people might have guessed that something was wrong, that something had frightened them; and that fear was like a wire which connected them with each other and isolated them from everyone else.

The anatomy of what happens to each of us is shadowed and affected by what came before, and I was conditioned as a child to live with fear and worry.

I believe doctors rarely have any idea how helpless patients can be when their brains are jumbled by fear, how unable they are to respond or take information in.

I thought about diving in, about crashing headfirst into the clear shallow sea, my head splintering. I also thought about the time between diving and landing when I imagine all people changed their minds. For me it was only a flirtation, not serious, merely an acknowledgment of how much I was dreading the next hours. It cheered me that I could have that fantasy.

Sometimes I trembled From the horror of my abyss.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

She denied and feared God in the same breath. She allowed our actions to shame her, and yet was void of shame. I truly believed there was something unnatural about her - a madness only her children could see. My yearning was not to understand it, but to escape it.

Fear was a thing I understood all too well. It was a malignancy that had spread throughout my body until my mother, in her godly wisdom, had diagnosed and cauterized it.

In less than five minutes our mother had taught us to never touch her metal box, and the true meaning of fear. I wondered that day if I was the only one in the room who knew that there was something terribly wrong with our mother.

Unwillingness to risk failure is always there, but it gets harder when you feel you have more to lose.

Its always been my tendency to lie to doctors, as if good health consisted only of the ability to fool them.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.

I have traveled outside the mountains, but never lived apart from them. I always feared mountains would be as jealous, as unforgiving, as any spurned lover. Leave them and they may never take you back. Besides, I never felt a need to go. There is enough to study in these hills to last a lifetime.

And what more can God do,' he asks, 'then to take on flesh and suffer every humiliation and every fear and every pain that humanity suffers? What more without destroying human freedom?